Friday, November 13, 2020

The armor of Achilles in Euripides' Electra

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Here is the second stanza of the chorus of Euripides' Electra  singing the divine delivery of Achilles' new armor: Χορός Νηρῇδες   δ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Commonplace books, modes of reading, collecting, compiling

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From a  marvelous but very long article by Anthony Grafton Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo. ” Poverty, he explained, created Lowliness, and that, i...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

The Iliad seen by Tischbein

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Greek heroes from the Iliad by Tischbein, from left to right  -Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. vis Arch...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Live from Epidaurus: The Persians

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"The Persians" by Aeschylus Live from Epidaurus: For the first time ever a live ancient Greek drama performance will be stream...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Notes on Persuasion in Eumenides

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Clytemnestra  tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes.  Apulian   red-figure  bell-krater, 380–370 BC. The path of good speech   ...

Regarding the Fury: Persuasion and detheatricalization in Eumenides

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The scope and object of the Oresteia is simply huge. Prior to Dante's Commedia , perhaps no other literary work sounded the matter of ...
Sunday, June 07, 2020

Clytemnestra vs. Athena: Two peripeteias in the Oresteia

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The peripeteia of Eumenides  has at least two remarkable features. First, Athena's "act" involves none of the archaic acts of...